In a small Tuscan village, for over thirty years, the people have been examining and expressing themselves through the medium of an annual drama production which attracts nation-wide attention, with a new text being written every year. Their 'autodrammi' have meditated regularly on the transfer of rural Tuscan society, in the 1960s, from a sharecropping community with medieval structures to the post-industrial world in which we all now live. In the process they have preserved memories of an important phase in Italian social history. This study, composed by Richard Andrews after a fifteen-year acquaintance with the theatre of Monticchiello, first of all traces the political and social process by which Tuscan sharecropping came to an end. It then examines in detail the way in which that story has been remembered, analysed and even mythologized in the artistic consciousness of a lively modern community. The book will be of equal interest to Italianists, to historians, and to students of theatre.
| ISBN: | 9780952590149 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 1998 |
| Author: | Richard Andrews, Italy Teatro povero Theater group Monticchiello, Society for Italian Studies |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor and Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Series: | Occasional Papers |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies |
In a small Tuscan village, for over thirty years, the people have been examining and expressing themselves through the medium of an annual drama production which attracts nation-wide attention, with a new text being written every year. Their 'autodrammi' have meditated regularly on the transfer of rural Tuscan society, in the 1960s, from a sharecropping community with medieval structures to the post-industrial world in which we all now live. In the process they have preserved memories of an important phase in Italian social history. This study, composed by Richard Andrews after a fifteen-year acquaintance with the theatre of Monticchiello, first of all traces the political and social process by which Tuscan sharecropping came to an end. It then examines in detail the way in which that story has been remembered, analysed and even mythologized in the artistic consciousness of a lively modern community. The book will be of equal interest to Italianists, to historians, and to students of theatre.
A Theatre of Community Memory features in the following genres: Theatre studies
A Theatre of Community Memory is available in Paperback
A Theatre of Community Memory was written by Richard Andrews, Italy Teatro povero Theater group Monticchiello, Society for Italian Studies and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor and Francis
A Theatre of Community Memory has 128 pages
Yes it is part of Occasional Papers series